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ADP ALTERNATIVE

Every other ADP alternative is just another subscription.

Stop waiting on a rep who never calls back. Build payroll and HR software that answers to you, because you own it.

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No per-seat fees, everYour code and data, fully yoursUp to 70% less than your software bill

BUILT FOR YOUR HR TEAM

Small businessMulti-stateHR teamsPayrollPEO switchersBenefits

THE PROBLEM

You're not alone.

If you searched "ADP alternative," you already know what it's like to run HR on someone else's terms.

“Our payroll rep is unresponsive, we frequently receive SUI tax notices… we have cases that have been open for 5+ months and I constantly have to follow up.”

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“ADP TotalSource is notorious for poor service - you’re not alone there.”

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“HRIS Analyst here… implementation was awful, support has been awful… nickle and dime you for every little thing.”

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“ADP PEO will not allow you to carry your own benefits and still remain on the PEO. You are a bit stuck with them.”

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“Sounds like you’re going to take a lot of hits when ADP is the company that should have known this.”

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“So we’ve had to go through the whole implementation process all over… ADP has without a doubt been the absolute worst.”

r/humanresourcesReddit

“Our payroll rep is unresponsive, we frequently receive SUI tax notices… we have cases that have been open for 5+ months and I constantly have to follow up.”

r/humanresourcesReddit

“ADP TotalSource is notorious for poor service - you’re not alone there.”

r/humanresourcesReddit

“HRIS Analyst here… implementation was awful, support has been awful… nickle and dime you for every little thing.”

r/humanresourcesReddit

“ADP PEO will not allow you to carry your own benefits and still remain on the PEO. You are a bit stuck with them.”

r/humanresourcesReddit

“Sounds like you’re going to take a lot of hits when ADP is the company that should have known this.”

r/humanresourcesReddit

“So we’ve had to go through the whole implementation process all over… ADP has without a doubt been the absolute worst.”

r/humanresourcesReddit

“Our payroll rep is unresponsive, we frequently receive SUI tax notices… we have cases that have been open for 5+ months and I constantly have to follow up.”

r/humanresourcesReddit

“ADP TotalSource is notorious for poor service - you’re not alone there.”

r/humanresourcesReddit

“HRIS Analyst here… implementation was awful, support has been awful… nickle and dime you for every little thing.”

r/humanresourcesReddit

“ADP PEO will not allow you to carry your own benefits and still remain on the PEO. You are a bit stuck with them.”

r/humanresourcesReddit

“Sounds like you’re going to take a lot of hits when ADP is the company that should have known this.”

r/humanresourcesReddit

“So we’ve had to go through the whole implementation process all over… ADP has without a doubt been the absolute worst.”

r/humanresourcesReddit

“Our payroll rep is unresponsive, we frequently receive SUI tax notices… we have cases that have been open for 5+ months and I constantly have to follow up.”

r/humanresourcesReddit

“ADP TotalSource is notorious for poor service - you’re not alone there.”

r/humanresourcesReddit

“HRIS Analyst here… implementation was awful, support has been awful… nickle and dime you for every little thing.”

r/humanresourcesReddit

“ADP PEO will not allow you to carry your own benefits and still remain on the PEO. You are a bit stuck with them.”

r/humanresourcesReddit

“Sounds like you’re going to take a lot of hits when ADP is the company that should have known this.”

r/humanresourcesReddit

“So we’ve had to go through the whole implementation process all over… ADP has without a doubt been the absolute worst.”

r/humanresourcesReddit

An unresponsive rep

You wait days to fix a payroll problem you didn’t cause.

Compliance lands on you

A missed flag becomes your back taxes and penalties, not ADP’s.

Rates you can’t see into

Your renewal climbs, and you never see the number behind it.

THE SHIFT

Renting ADP
vs. owning your HR stack.

No unresponsive rep. No mystery rate hikes. Just payroll and HR that answer to you.

The Old Way

Rent ADP

  • ADP hands you an unresponsive rep and a case number.
  • ADP’s PEO bundle can jump 25% at renewal, and you have no say in the number.
  • ADP’s account structure is rigid: need to add a W-2 employee to a 1099-only account? Start over.
  • ADP’s compliance gaps become your problem: tax notices and audits land on your desk, not theirs.
The New Way

Own your software

  • You own everything: code, data, and infrastructure
  • One flat price. No per seat.
  • Change it in plain English, anytime
  • Bank-level security, built in.
  • We build it and run it, so the maintenance isn’t on you

You Own It

Your software, your data, your competitive advantage. No lock-in, no data held hostage.

Fully Managed

We handle hosting, security, updates, and improvements. The maintenance isn’t on you.

Always Flexible

Need a change? Describe it in plain English with our AI editor, or hand it to our team.

HOW IT WORKS

A proven head start, then it's yours.

Real engineering behind it. Your choice: hands-on or done-for-you.

01

Start from the right base

Start from a proven template with ADP’s core features: one of ours, a proven open-source base, or built from scratch. An expert-built head start, not a blank page.

02

Make it yours

Customize it to your exact workflow: build the features yourself in plain English, or hand it to our engineering team. Either way you get engineering support along the way.

03

Own it for good

The finished software is yours: code, data, and a setup built around your workflow. Customize it anytime, and we can keep it running for you.

BUILT FOR HOW YOUR HR TEAM WORKS

Shaped around how your team runs HR.

Multi-state small business

The multi-state small business running payroll alone.

Stuck in a PEO

The HR lead stuck in an unresponsive PEO relationship.

More than payroll

The team that needs more than payroll, without paying for a bundle they don’t use.

ADP alternative: your questions, answered.

No. When you own your HR software, you pick your own benefits and carriers instead of being tied to ADP’s PEO. We help you move your people, payroll history, and benefits data across, so you keep what’s working and drop what isn’t.
You change it: that’s the point of owning it. Add a pay type, a new state, or a whole workflow by describing it in plain English, or hand it to our team. You’re never waiting on a rep or a roadmap to fix your own setup.
No. You start from a proven template our team already built, and we can host and maintain it for one flat monthly fee. There’s no engineer to hire: you own the result whether you run it yourself or leave the upkeep to us.
Fill out the short form on Get started: who you are, your company size, the tools you want to replace, and a bit about how you run payroll and HR. With that, we line up a base template that fits before we talk. On the call, we walk you through that template, look at your current stack, and show what replacing ADP, and anything else you're overpaying for, would look like.

Own your HR stack.

Tell us which tools you want to replace, and we'll show you what you'd save.

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